Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com> writes: > juser@gator:~/temp$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 -display curses -drive > file=disk.cow -drive file=boot.img > WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'boot.img' and probing guessed > raw. > Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, > write operations on block 0 will be restricted. > Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. > > This is OK, as I don't want anything writing to that thing anyway. So to > get rid of the waring: > > juser@gator:~/temp$ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive > file=boot.img,format=raw,readonly qemu-system-x86_64: Can't use a read-only > drive > qemu-system-x86_64: Initialization of device ide-hd failed: Device > initialization failed.
-drive without if=... creates an IDE disk[*]. IDE disks can't do read-only. Have you tried omitting ",readonly"? > hmm... one more try: > > juser@gator:~/temp$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 -display curses -drive > file=disk.cow,readonly > qemu-system-x86_64: Can't use a read-only drive > qemu-system-x86_64: Initialization of device ide-hd failed: Device > initialization failed. [*] It actually depends on the machine, but I figure that's of no interest to you.
